Improvement in swings



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Swings.

No 154 275 w I Patented Aug-18,1814.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrroa ALFRED PANYARD, OF MASSILLON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,275, dated August 18, 1874 application filed May 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, ALFRED PANYARD, of Massillon, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swings; andthat the following is a full, clear, and exact specification thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the said invention.

My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of swings, and particularly to indoor or house swings. Said invention consists in the construction of a swingbox with a removable seat "and extension-bottom, whereby it may .be used either as a swing-chair or swing-bed, as is hereinafter more fully shown. Said invention also consists in thecombination, with a swing-box having a removable seat and extension-bottom, of two rigid upright swinging arms secured thereto, having hooks at their upper ends, which fasten in staples secured in bracketsof plain or ornamental design, by which the swing is hung to the swing-frame or ceiling, the several parts being so arranged that an easy movement of the swing is secured and the swing-box -is firmly held from twisting sidewise in swinging; and when not in use, the swing may be removed, leaving only the ornamental brackets on the ceiling, which do not disfigure the room to any extent.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of my swing. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of same. Fig. 3. is a plan of swing-box, showing the extensionbottom partly drawn out. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of same, through the line :10 w in Fig. 3, with the extensible bottom closed or in place. Fig. 5 is a view of a single bracket having two staples. Figs. 6 are views of two small brackets 7 having one staple apiece A are the side pieces, B the back, and M the bottom, of my swing-box. H is the extension-bottom, having the foot-board L, and is made to slide between the bottom of the swing-box M and the inwardly-projecting slats K, by which it is kept in place. I is the seat-board, which is to rest on the supports J whenthe swing-box is used as a chair; but when said box is to be used as a bed, the seatboard I is slid down the space 0, between the supports J and back B of the swingbox. When desired, the seat-board I can be placed in the notch N of the supports J, and used as a table by a child sitting between it and the back B, Fig. 4. O O are the rigid upright swinging arms, fastened to the side pieces A of the swing-box, and D are the hooks secured in the upper ends thereof. F F F are brackets, of plain or ornamental design, that are to be fastened to the main beam in the ceiling, the former, F, having two staples, and the latter, F F, one staple each, secured thereto or cast therewith, to which the hooks D are hung. The bracket F, Fig. 5, is used with swings of a standard size. The brackets F F, Fig. 6, are used with swings that are larger .or smaller than the standard size,'.

as two brackets, having a staple each, can be adapted to uprights at any distance apart. When the swing-bog, having theseat in position, resting on the supports J, is turned into a bed, the seat is slid between the supports J and the back B, and the extension-bottom is drawn out and reversed, so that the foot-board L will project upward; then slid back between the braces K and bottom M, as far as desired, provided there is a sufficient length of it under the braces K to keep it in a horizontal position.

The use of the rope shown in drawing has been fully explained in previous constructions, and need not be further described here.

' What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a swing-box, the removable seat or table 1 and the extensible bottom H, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a swingbox having a removable seat and extensible bottom, as specified, of two rigid supporting-arms pro vided with hooks to be secured to staples in brackets fastened to the ceiling of a room,

substantially as described.

ALFRED PANYARD.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM FINK, BENNET B. WARNER. 

